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Verb resile has 4 senses

resile - draw back from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.; "The landlord cannot resile from the lease"
--₁ is one way to chicken out, back off, pull out, back down, bow out
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet - spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
--₂ is one way to jump, leap, bound, spring

Derived form: noun resiliency₁
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile - formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
--₃ is one way to renounce, repudiate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
resile - return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed; "The rubber tubes resile"
--₄ is one way to revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back

Derived forms: noun resiliency₂, noun resilience₂, noun resilience₁
Sample sentence:
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